Residential Estate Industry Journal | Page 14

history & Overview Why Residential Estates join ARC? 1.The Association of Residential Communities (ARC) has been in existence for over 5 years now and has 11 Founder Members, 10 Chapters around the country and over 300 Member Estates, which are home to over 100 000 residents and represent 48% of the market in respect to the number of homes. 2. ARC has researched, developed and sourced over 400 best practice resources covering all disciplines of residential community management and leadership. 3. ARC conducts an annual industry- wide survey where all possible residential community statistics are available for residential estate benchmarking purposes. 4. ARC has developed strategic partnerships with residential community experts across various areas of residential community management, and these are all available to ARC members. 5. The ARC website attracts over 50 000 hits per month, with 2 000 unique visitors, our portal has regular newsletter